Ukulele Quotes

• One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

  Mary Schmich

  World, Lessons, Want

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone. It's no one elses' business as far as I can see, but every time that I go out the people stare at me, with me little ukulele in me hand.

  George Formby

  Crazy, Hands, People

  Song: With My Little Ukelele In My Hand

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• I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

  Don Henley

  Thinking, Play, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

  Tony Visconti

  Christmas, Song, Father

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• I started playing ukulele first for 2 years from age 9 to 11 and got my first guitar and got inspired by blues I heard on the radio that turned me on and I started learning myself.

  Johnny Winter

  Learning, Guitar, Years

  Interview with Vasja Ivanovski, www.blesok.com.mk. May/June 2003.

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• There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

  Jeff Lynne

  Sound, Can Do

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• We started out when I was 6 years old. We played ukuleles and sang Everly Brothers songs.

  Edgar Winter

  Song, Brother, Years

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• If you pick up a ukulele, it will make you unbelievably happy.

  Bette Midler

  Picks, Ifs

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like to play the ukulele, but I'm not, like, awesome at it. I mostly play the piano and the guitar.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

  Paul McCartney

  Play, Ems, Grownups

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• It's hard to be depressed around a ukulele. You just pick it up and you're halfway home.

  William H. Macy

  Home, Halfway, Picks

  "Ukulele Days" by Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 13, 2014.

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• The ukulele is the instrument of peace.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Instruments

  "BYT Interviews: Jake Shimabukuro". Interview with Jade Salazar, brightestyoungthings.com. April 23, 2013.

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• Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Would Be, World, Ifs

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• There's no ego when you're a ukulele player.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Player, Ego

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• Tough like a Ukulele.

  Kool Keith

  Hip Hop, Tough

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• I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

  Eddie Vedder

  Machines, Littles, Motto

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• How do I relax? This might sound slightly ridiculous but I play the ukulele for at least an hour a day and I find something really blissful about it.

  Frank Skinner

  Play, Relax, Might

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• I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

  Dane Cook

  Thinking, Sound

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• The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Senior, Hipster, Home

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Sometimes I can't think of a better way to end my day than coming home and just strumming my ukulele for a few minutes. I mean, I joke around and tell people that it's an entire yoga session in one strum, you know?

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Yoga, Home, Mean

  FaceBook post by Jake Shimabukuro from Sep 18, 2014

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• Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

  Bette Davis

  Fake People, Mirrors, Actors

  Whitney Stine, Bette Davis (1990). “"I'd love to kiss you-- ": conversations with Bette Davis”, Thorndike Pr

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• I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

  Mike Myers

  Play, Battle, Groups

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• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Mean, Opposites, Guitar

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• I grew up in a musical family; the majority of my growing up was done in Hawaii. It's what we do. You sing, you dance, you play ukulele and you drink.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Growing Up, Play, Inspire

  "The Rock: 'THAT is what I'm cooking'". Interview With Stuart Heritage, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2012.

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